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According to the U.S. Department of State Travel website:
 

Obtaining medical treatment and hospital care abroad can be expensive, and medical evacuation to the U.S. can cost more than $50,000. Note that U.S. medical insurance is generally not accepted outside the United States, nor do the Social Security Medicare and Medicaid programs provide coverage for hospital or medical costs outside the United States. 

 

There are health insurance policies...

According to the U.S. Department of State Travel website:
 

Obtaining medical treatment and hospital care abroad can be expensive, and medical evacuation to the U.S. can cost more than $50,000. Note that U.S. medical insurance is generally not accepted outside the United States, nor do the Social Security Medicare and Medicaid programs provide coverage for hospital or medical costs outside the United States. 

 

There are health insurance policies both for short term trips and longer stays abroad that you can purchase which will provide full coverage outside the US. 

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On June 28, outside the Colombian-run bar, Rana Dorado, the streets quickly fill up with cheering Colombians after their World Cup win over Uruguay (in lower right part of photo).

 
Only a few minutes later (upper left part of photo) Panama’s new LGBTI Gay Pride Parade comes around the corner of Via Argentina and happily head up across the American-run (from NY) New York Bagels.
 
This leads to an interesting and different exchange of human...

On June 28, outside the Colombian-run bar, Rana Dorado, the streets quickly fill up with cheering Colombians after their World Cup win over Uruguay (in lower right part of photo).

 
Only a few minutes later (upper left part of photo) Panama’s new LGBTI Gay Pride Parade comes around the corner of Via Argentina and happily head up across the American-run (from NY) New York Bagels.
 
This leads to an interesting and different exchange of human energies, each with its own reasons for celebration, and each wanting to celebrate around the (Albert) Einstein Statue as this was a formerly predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
 
The photos were taken by curious Dutch and Korean students from the view of the social terrace of Canadian & Panamanian-run Spanish language school “SpanishPanama.”
 
All of this is a fantastic testament to the increasing internationalism of Panama City’s central neighborhoods over the past decade. And this brand of globalism is having a positive effect on stretching and challenging minds, creating openness and broader social tolerance.

Within the city of Granada, Nicaragua, you can rent a nice 2-bedroom house for about US $500 - $550. It probably hasn’t been fully remodeled but it is still a good, functioning house. Five miles out of Granada, there are small houses that cost maybe $300 a month to rent. The farther you are from the city, the more affordable housing becomes. The real issue here is the availability of these houses because there is shortage of housing even for the locals here in Nicaragua....

Within the city of Granada, Nicaragua, you can rent a nice 2-bedroom house for about US $500 - $550. It probably hasn’t been fully remodeled but it is still a good, functioning house. Five miles out of Granada, there are small houses that cost maybe $300 a month to rent. The farther you are from the city, the more affordable housing becomes. The real issue here is the availability of these houses because there is shortage of housing even for the locals here in Nicaragua. That’s also the reason why there are many families living in the same house.
 
For a bigger house here in Managua, let’s say a 2,000 square foot home with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, you’ll likely spend around $750 - $1,500 for the rent, depending on the type of neighborhood.

The history of Portugal is a very broad question, so I will address it just in summary form.
 
500 years ago, Portugal owned half of the world and 500 years later we are just a little small humble country of Europe, which can tell you quite a bit.  We were, 500 years ago, a very important country, responsible for controlling half of the goods produced of half of the world. Spain had the other half. And then came the Dutch, the English; the explorers, and they took over some...

The history of Portugal is a very broad question, so I will address it just in summary form.
 
500 years ago, Portugal owned half of the world and 500 years later we are just a little small humble country of Europe, which can tell you quite a bit.  We were, 500 years ago, a very important country, responsible for controlling half of the goods produced of half of the world. Spain had the other half. And then came the Dutch, the English; the explorers, and they took over some of the rich countries that we controlled.
 
The colonies we had like Brazil, Mozambique, and Angola, survived for the last 300 to 200 years. But as the world developed, it was no longer allowed for countries to have colonies so we released our last colony in 1999, which was Macau in China. We had various dynasties of kings and queens and mixtures of royalty with other European countries.
 
We’re a country of explorers, very brave and courageous because if you could just imagine, 500 years ago, with no conditions, with little wooden boats discovering and crossing oceans and discovering countries, that can tell us a bit of the Portuguese culture. So yes, it’s a very brave culture, and a very brave country. We discovered half of the world and today we’re just a little civilized country of Europe.  

 

(Duke of Vise, Henry the Navigator of Portugal considered the patron of exploration, pictured.)